MBA StudentStanford University
Ali is currently a first year MBA student at Stanford University. Prior to Stanford, Ali worked at Deloitte Consulting - he focused on new product development for Telecom and Tech clients helping them expand into the education, healthcare and smart city verticals. His projects ranged from developing information-sharing tools for emergency management to building online marketplaces for tutoring.
On the side, Ali has continued to scale Possibilities Pakistan, a non-profit he founded to improve access to college counseling in Pakistan. Over the last 7 years, the team has provided counseling to hundreds of students. They are now developing a blended learning model for counseling using a combination of content, tech and mentors. More broadly, Ali is interested in two themes within education: (1) How do we personalize education to students? (2) With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, how does our education system need to evolve?
Ali’s most recent project is “Reach.” With “Reach”, he hopes to tackle a problem that many organizations and affinity-based communities experience – when we need advice or help, who do we reach out to in the organization/ community and how do we make sure they respond? Asking your close contacts or using mass emails is often ineffective and inefficient. “Reach” is addressing this problem with a platform that uses machine learning to match requests to the most relevant people in your organization/ community.
Ali grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with University Honors in Math and Economics from Wesleyan University. In his free time, he enjoys watching and playing soccer (loyal Man Utd fan for 17 years) and dinner discussions (e.g., role of doctors in a world of algorithmic diagnostics).